I know how to do this in gnome and kde but what about other window
managers. Specifically Window Maker and fluxbox. I'm assuming there
is no single place I can do this for all the window managers.

thanks a bunch in advance.

03-16-2008, 03:56 PM

unix

Re: Switching to left-handed mouse

sadf <asdf@asdf.com>:[color=blue]
> I know how to do this in gnome and kde but what about other window
> managers. Specifically Window Maker and fluxbox. I'm assuming there
> is no single place I can do this for all the window managers.[/color]

I use startx at the command line. That slurps in my ~/.xinitrc, which
includes:

On 2008-03-16, sadf wrote:[color=blue]
> I know how to do this in gnome and kde but what about other window
> managers. Specifically Window Maker and fluxbox. I'm assuming there
> is no single place I can do this for all the window managers.[/color]

Adjust the numbers as required (3 2 1 is the operative part):

xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 6 7 4 5"

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